TEI-C Board Minutes: 20 February 2026

Attending: Hugh Cayless, James Cummings (chair), Dimitra Grigoriou, Diane Jakacki, Gimena del Rio Riande, Magdalena Turska

Regrets: Elisa Beshero-Bondar

Agenda Items:

  • Approval of minutes
    • MT and DJ approve last month's minutes
    • JC confirmed as Chair (via Slack)
  • Elections 2026
    • Must be finished before TEI2026
    • We need at least 2 people (usually 1 from Board and 1 from Council for TEI elections)
    • Gimena and Dimitra volunteer as Board representatives to the elections committee
    • We need 1 person from the Council, Martina to be approached.
  • Rahtz Prize 2026 (Volunteer to chair committee?)
    • DJ (Board)
    • One of the former winners (also DJ or CC?)
    • We need a volunteer from the Council
  • Council Report
    • EBB setting up AI TEI SIG
    • Release went smooth according to main release technician HBS
  • TEI By Example Discussion
    • The pros and cons of TEI-C taking on TEI By example were discussed at length. The Board feels this is a distraction from Council's current commitments.
  • Membership Drive
    • JC notes survey ongoing. Various discussion includes that the survey indicates increase in fee is reasonable. Suggestions for ways to do better communication noted.
    • GRR: I would start finding someone who can do communication; many ppl are not on the mailing list and not attending the conference; ppl teaching undergraduates consistently but not having big projects on their own. Universities everywhere have trouble but individuals are using and interested in TEI. We could gather a list of associations, revamp FB and other social media, try to find younger people who might be interested in joining
    • DG: was interested in change of questionnaire responses bc that coincided with the time there was outreach through Dariah, German DH spaces and so on. Many people are not following TEI-L, or find it intimidating. We should extend the communications to more domain-specific mailing lists. We should increase our reach, ideally without increasing work.
    • GRR: we forget we have a Journal that's free to publish, multi-lingual, international
    • MT: we could take turns and post some free form content, e.g. 2 posts for a month and then another person takes over
    • DG: shall I create a list of mailing lists and media for communication; GRR has a list from BA conference
    • MT: shall we have Canvas in the Board channel to draft social media posts?
  • AOB:
    • None